just ... no. Light years behind copying in the iPhone, sure. Look at all the people who have a Samsung who jailbreak them to remove the breakage of the awful skins they add to stock Android: why is that even a thing if they're ahead of anyone.

Reader was (still is) a prime source of traffic to individual websites, and enabled their discovery. Social networks have been replacing RSS as a downstream source of information, but much of the top tier of discovering and disseminating stories has come from RSS, and the much of the RSS usage has been enabled by Reader.

Still, it's a done deal and people are moving on, and this is only a good thing for RSS in the long term since it no longer has the gorilla squatting on the territory.

Why anyone is trying to make this argument any more in 2013 is beyond me. The stable is empty, horses long gone, fallen into the sea off a burning platform or something. Pick your mismetaphor, this story is DONE.